Pete Rose Dead At 83

[Mosby]

Source: TMZ

MLB legend Pete Rose has died at the age of 83, TMZ Sports has learned.

Rose, Major League Baseball's hit king, passed away earlier today at his home in Las Vegas.

Pete's agent, Ryan Fiterman of Fiterman Sports, confirmed the news, saying, "the family is asking for privacy at this time."

Pete was one of the greatest baseball players to ever grace a diamond, earning 17 All-Star Game nods, winning three World Series and the 1973 N.L. MVP.

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. Damn, and Trump was going to pardon him . . . . .

[jimfields33]

2. Why must trump be on every reply on every OP?

Even an obituary. Enough please….pretty please.

[NoRethugFriends]

4. you are the arbiter of posts?

[jimfields33]

17. You missed my pretty please. Reread.

[NoRethugFriends]

22. I did not miss anything

[Polybius]

32. jimfields33 got 12 Rec's for that post

So yes.

[PufPuf23]

12. Have thought about suggesting that DU schedule a 24 hour Trump day of silence

just to see if possible and for Democratic/DU team building.

[jimfields33]

18. I doubt it could last two hours.

[PufPuf23]

19. That is why said scheduled but agreed with you. nt

[SocialDemocrat61]

26. Maybe because Rose was a Trump supporter

[aggiesal]

30. One less vote. n/t

When I was in Little League, I used a Louisville Slugger Hillerich & Bradsby, size 30 Pete Rose Little League bat.

[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

38. I'm not surprised Rose is a Trump fan since

they’re both liars. Rose lied about his gambling for years until he had a book (My Prison Without Bars) which came out in 2004.

[Bengus81]

54. Because Trump supported Rose in the face of his baseball gambling

Meaning once again,Trump supports this kind of activity because it's a part of his damn life.

[Montauk6]

27. It's OK, his buddy Mr. McMahon already inducted Rose in the WWE Hall of Fame

[twodogsbarking]

3. Other teams feared him and rightfully so. He was one of the best.

[NoRethugFriends]

6. he was a jerk who ruined a catcher's career in an All-Star game

[JoseBalow]

16. He and his wife were both jerks to many people

I knew them and interacted with them, and they both sucked at being decent humans.

[underpants]

9. Peter Edward Rose

I heard Sparky say his whole name once and you could feel his appreciation for him.

Growing up when I did - see post below- we didn’t emulate flash, we had to be honest with ourselves about effort. The man in the mirror don’t lie.

[underpants]

5. Damn. A huge part of my early life.

Not just because we lived near and went to a lot of Reds games.

Hustle. No matter what you are playing you have to give it all every play.

I had all of the Big Red Machines signatures many times over. Bench was hard to get. I don’t know if we knew someone or just knew to go to a certain level of the parking lot next to Riverfront. We weren’t the only family there. I probably went to 10 games before I was 7. I had them all. Thus was before signatures had value. We moved a lot so eventually I cast them off. You can’t move everything you’ve ever had.

RIP Pete. Thanks.

[SarcasticSatyr]

7. Great baseball player ...

shitty person ...

[TexasBushwhacker]

61. I was thinking the same thing

He was a great ballplayer, but a pretty creepy human being.

[Zorro]

8. He'll probably get inducted into Cooperstown now

[DJ Synikus Makisimus]

11. Hopefully not before Shoeless Joe Jackson.

I wouldn't hold my breath on either happening.

[valleyrogue]

31. I hope never.

I don't get it with the apologists for this man who disgraced himself. They remind me of the Lance Armstrong defenders who even now still make excuses for his flagrant cheating in pro cycling.

[AltairIV]

24. Nope. Never.

[aggiesal]

34. Actor Paul Giamatti was the son of MLB Commissioner Bart Giamatti ...

If you ask Paul Giamatti about Pete Rose, we would tell you that Pete Rose was the cause of his father's death.
I'm sure he would fight to keep Pete Rose out of the Baseball Hall Of Fame.

[OAITW r.2.0]

10. See ya, Pete. You were really good, but why did you stain your rep?

Of course, today. you probably would get a pass.....

[maxsolomon]

20. Probably because he had a gambling addiction.

He sure paid for it - more than almost anyone else in MLB.

Certainly, more than Shohei Ohtani has, oh sorry, that was his interpreter.

[OAITW r.2.0]

21. Exactly.

In another era, it might be forgiven. Assuming you can designate a fall guy.

[NoRethugFriends]

23. Should pay for betting on baseball. I would not care about his betting on anything else.

[maxsolomon]

58. He did pay.

He'll never be in the HOF.

Listening to Johnny Bench talk about Rose on Dan Patrick this morning was tragic.

[Clouds Passing]

13. Pete

[timms139]

14. Got a late

60's card signed by Pete.

[BumRushDaShow]

15. That was unexpected

and as many teams as he was on, he WAS a Philly at one time and on our 1980 World Series team.

[BOSSHOG]

28. Thanks for the memories My Friend

Look at them hairdos. And a leisure Suit. Michael Jack Schmidt turned 75 last Friday (27 September.)

Hopefully another such picture forthcoming.

[BumRushDaShow]

46. "Hopefully another such picture forthcoming."

I hope so too. I remember the Brad Lidge final play 16 years ago, which came 28 years after the 1980 miracle win for this city!

[BOSSHOG]

49. Do you remember the 64 Season?

World Series Tickets printed up. Oh the pain.

[BumRushDaShow]

50. No but I can imagine

We sort of felt like that last year as it is.

[iluvtennis]

25. May Pete Rose Rest in Peace and May his Memory be a Blessing. n/t

[NoRethugFriends]

51. Memory of him is the farthest thing from a blessing.

[raising2moredems]

29. Saw him in Vegas once..

He did admit it sucked that Ron Santo did not get into the Hall of Fame until after he was dead. Should have got a picture with him - my pappaw was a big Reds fan (and full disclosure, my mammaw never tried to set him on fire). But the Blackhawks had a playoff game that night and that was first and foremost on my mind. Blackhawks won FYI.

[ZonkerHarris]

33. Great player but corrupt to the bone.

[LudwigPastorius]

35. On the bright side (for him), his lifetime ban is over.

[ZonkerHarris]

40. had to end sometime

[Lunabell]

36. I have nothing nice to say.

RIP Kris Kristofferson.

[DinahMoeHum]

37. Had he not been coaching/managing in MLB. . .

. . .Pete Rose would've been in the baseball HOF a long time ago. First ballot. No question. Even if there were issues of gambling while he was a player.
Players with worse character issues than that are in the HOF.

[maxsolomon]

59. He never should have been a manager.

It really wasn't his skill set.

So, in a way, this is Marge Schott's fault for hiring him.

[Tarc]

39. R.I.P., but...

still not HoF-worthy. Unrepentant about his cheating to the very end.

[MichMan]

41. Pilloried for gambling yet last year MLB announced that Fan Duel was their Sports Betting Partner

[LudwigPastorius]

42. There's quite a difference between fans betting on games and participants betting on games.

[BumRushDaShow]

47. I'm guessing you missed this current fiasco

Shohei Ohtani gambling scandal: Interpreter Ippei Mizuhara pleads guilty, faces up to 33 years in prison


By Matt Snyder & R.J. Anderson
Jun 4, 2024 at 2:21 pm ET



USATSI

Ippei Mizuhara, the former interpreter for Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani, pleaded guilty to bank and tax fraud charges on Tuesday morning. He faces a maximum sentence of 33 years in prison, five years of supervised release and a fine of $1,250,000 and will be sentenced on October 25, according to ESPN's Alden Gonzalez. Mizuhara did not answer questions after leaving the courthouse.

Mizuhara's charges stemmed from the gambling scandal in which he was accused of stealing almost $17 million from the baseball player and using it to place illegal bets, the U.S Attorney's Office for the Central District of California announced on May 8.

Mizuhara, described by the Attorney's Office as Ohtani's "de facto manager," pleaded guilty to one count of bank fraud and one count of subscribing to a false tax return.

The 39-year-old former interpreter will be required to pay full restitution to his victims, which includes $16,975,010 to Victim A, Ohtani, and $1,149,400 to the IRS.

(snip)

This type of thing has really been a no-no for over a century thanks to this -



Of course this year, the White Sox have set another, rather unsavory record but I won't go into that.

[Music Man]

43. Rose was undoubtedly a great baseball player, but he deserved the lifetime ban.

Betting on games as manager, including betting against one's own team, is a serious ethical breach. He was in a position to change the outcomes of games. He stood to profit while adversely affecting the careers of his players. Anyone that says "people who've done worse are in the Hall of Fame" are engaging in whataboutism, not arguing the issue at hand.

[moniss]

44. So many of the same ones

who condemned him in life, or after themselves being enriched by his play acted like they couldn't speak his name, are now the ones to issue praise. There is always nothing so shallow as those who do this. You see it at funerals where people come and say things about the deceased that are a 180 degree turn from what they had been saying while the person had life. Moochers probably showing up to see if there is food after the funeral. I've had a belly full of such funerals in my life and been witness to many more.

Major League Baseball issued their hollow sympathies. It goes without saying the weasel nature of MLB being more than happy to make money off of the career of Pete Rose while proclaiming him to be pariah. Not another word MLB. Just STFU. At long last leave the name of Pete Rose out of your mouth. You never deserved him and on his worst day on earth he was still more as a human being than the MLB brass and the ones who turned away.

[LeftInTX]

45. I didn't know he was that old. I would have guessed he was born in 1950.

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Full disclosure: I don't follow sports very much.

[ECL213]

48. They probably would have lifted his lifetime ban...

if he hadn't been such an asshole.

[maxsolomon]

62. Johnny Bench was saying today that Rose had been offered a chance

if he'd come clean publicly, but couldn't swallow his pride.

[vapor2]

52. Took grandkids trick or treating last Oct

and Pete was one block over signing $2 bills for every trick or treater. Have to add that he did serve jail time and repaid the IRS.

[JohnnyRingo]

53. Bah! Pete Rose tried to ruin America's Pastime.

Gambling on baseball when he's directly involved in the sport takes it to a level with WWE Wrestling.
We can't believe any outcome or umpire call if mobsters and bookies are paying off players to throw games. Gambling debts are the easiest way to recruit players and managers into the corruption, and a team member can bet against their own team, then cash in.

He should never be seen as a hero of the game as an example to others.

[Zambero]

55. Rose's record as one of baseball's all-time greats cannot be disputed

However, his willingness to corrupt the sport for his own personal gain cannot be overlooked. MLB made the right decision and stood by it.

[Mawspam2]

56. Now that MLB is partnered with FanDuel,

perhaps MLB could posthumously drop its HoF ban.

[Mosby]

57. The NFL radically changed player rules about gambling

New rules:

Don’t bet on the NFL.
Don’t gamble at your team facility while traveling for a road game or staying at a team hotel.
Don’t have someone bet for you.
Don’t share team “inside information.”
Don’t enter a sportsbook during the NFL playing season.
Don’t play daily fantasy football (DFS).

So they can bet on anything they want other than football, that's a complete 180 from the previous policies.

[KPN]

60. Lifelong Red Sox fan. I will never forgive Pete Rose or Bob Gibson

for their 4 games to 3 World Series victory over the Sox in 1975! A heartbreaker!

Otherwise, I have mixed feelings about Rose, both as a ball player and a person. His “hustle” sometimes appeared to be more showmanship to me at least.

[maxsolomon]

63. Well, you got your WS wins in the Aughts, and then some.

Reds had '90 (right after they'd fired Rose and hired a real manager, Lou Pinella), and floundering futility since then.